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304 . THE CULTIVATION CXF
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LX.—THE CULTIVATION OF FEMALE
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_. . . . The Irish female population has...
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Part Ii. Fiiattery Is Sometimes A Low Re...
by debt . Slie determined to brave the censures of society , to defy _lier nation , and to despise her sex . Her hallucinations
were so complete , that she was naturally suspected of willing imposture . It is doubtless probable that , having yielded herself
entirely to the dominion of her passions , she had so clouded the light of conscience as to lose the true perception of right and wrong .
Her bursts of spleen against mankind were like the ravings of Timon of Athens , and she who had been the greatest defender of
the rights of the aristocracy , became an irreverent railer against royalty .
We can have no more striking proof of how those faults of character which are passed over leniently , and considered as mere
amiable follies when a woman is young and beautiful and caressed hj societymay become ridiculous and even contemptible when
, they gain power in age . The selfishness of the gay young girl is tolerated when fortune smiles upon her , but in after life she too
often falls a victim to dreary ennui . The vacuum of an empty mind becomes a plenum of wretchedness and discontent . In such a case
fashionable sensibility may degenerate into morbid irritability , while the absence of good sense may lead to the most monstrous
eccentricity . In speaking of a future judgment , we sometimes lose sight of that present Providence , which in the world around
us , as in the history of the past , plainly allots special punishments to special sins .
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304 . The Cultivation Cxf
304 . THE CULTIVATION CXF
Lx.—The Cultivation Of Female
LX—THE CULTIVATION OF FEMALE . INDXTSTKY IN IRELAND . M _^
_. . . . The Irish Female Population Has...
_ . . . . The Irish female population has been subject to an immense amount of experiment during the last fifteen yearsand the largest
, and most suffering portion of it is the least affected by the operations undertaken for its benefit . The great bulk of our 2 , 959 , 582
women seem indeed " born to trouble ; " and notwithstanding all the efforts to provide them with resources , they are still unable
to secure themselves against the hard pressure of poverty . The latest published statistics ( Thorn ' s Almanack ) give us 4625
adult able-bodied females in workhouses , and it may be gathered , , that at least an equal number of young girlscapable of industrial
, training , are within their walls . . It is well known that official statements do not contain an exact account of the wants of this
class ; they cannot define the limits of distress , nor estimate the extent of the sufferings surging up from this substratum of
society into its other ranks .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1862, page 304, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071862/page/16/
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